Chartreuse -- a color better known these days as "Brat Green" -- gets its name not from a herb or a flower as one might expect, but from an alcoholic beverage. More accurately, chartreuse gets its ...
Matt Ortile travels to the French Prealps, where the elusive green liquor, derived from a 1605 recipe and still made by ...
The first thing you notice is the color, a particular and lovely translucent green, the green of a deep tropical sea, of a primeval planet steaming in the sun, yet modern, too, a glowing neon, a ...
While chartreuse is traditionally referred to in the context of the color – it’s a yellowish green that was prevalent between the late 1950s and early ’70s in American interior design ­– it’s also a ...
Chartreuse is having its moment—one of many over 400 years. The complex green and yellow liqueurs are hot among Washington bartenders, whether mixed into cocktails or taken straight. Here’s what to ...
We have the Carthusians to thank for Chartreuse, the 400-year-old spirit made of 130 herbs and plants for which the 2016 Free Press/Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers Restaurant of the Year is named. In 1605 ...
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What many people don’t know about Chartreuse is that the Carthusian monks have made it since 1737. (Yes, you read that right.) Named after the monks’ Grande Chartreuse monastery, located in the ...
You have to give the people involved with making and selling Chartreuse their props. The consumers of that peculiar, vegetal French liqueur have been wigging out at the news that the monks who make ...
C'est un événement. Les moines du monastère de la Grande Chartreuse (Isère), qui produisent la célèbre liqueur connue dans le monde entier, viennent d'inaugurer leur nouvelle distillerie, la 7e depuis ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The worldwide shortage of Chartreuse – an herbal French liqueur used in cocktails like The Last Word – is affecting Northeast Ohio cocktail enthusiasts. The shortage follows an ...